Well, he was nearly died when he returned to the town he'd come from   He's brown bagging it tonight behind some tavern   Somebody wrecked his life and I'll bet you it was his darlin'   Somebody wrecked his life and I'll bet you it was his darlin'      So he drank like a river when the wedding bells rang   Watched from the steeple as the choir girls sang   Died in a gutter on his feet and his hands   The same hands that had once touched her face      Well, he was nearly died when he returned to the town he'd come from   He's hanging out drinking beer with his brother-in-law   He was a drinker at night and in the morning he was unnerving   He was a drinker full time, the day that he lost his darlin'      So he drank like a river when the wedding bells rang   Watched from the steeple as the choir girls sang   Died in a gutter on his feet and his hands   The same hands that had once touched her face      So he drank like a river when the wedding bells rang   Watched from the steeple as the choir girls sang   Died in a gutter on his feet and his hands   The same hands that had once touched her face